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The Fridge / Poor kids.
« on: September 10, 2004, 02:00:37 PM »
It is very hard to deal with this topic, as the wickedness and cruelty of such a barbaric act (choosing children as targets) makes it practically impossible to think about it objectively. No doubt even the most objective view could impossibly NOT condemn such a perverted crime. I don't think that anyone in a healthy state of mind would contradict this point.
But I really want to know what it is that makes people commit such inhuman crimes. I hope that I am understood, I do NOT try to seek any justification for something that CANNOT be justified by anything. But why is that, that so many people so willfully give up their lives just to take so many innocent people, they have never met before, with them?
What makes people fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up in busses or restaurants, or take hostages aware of the fact that neither their demands (retreat of Russian troops from Chechyna) are going to be met nor that they are likely to get out alive?
It is that indifference about the own life that makes these terrorists so scary for me. For if someone doesn't care about the own life, why should he or she care about what happens after the own death. What would stop such a person from trying to attack for example a nuclear power plant?
The results if such an attack "succeeded) would be far beyond anything we've seen so far.
Anyway, I'm straying from the topic. Why do people who are physically not different from you and me commit such horrible crimes at the expense of their own lifes? And what do they hope to "gain"? Is the terror and fear itself the aim?
One last thing, the question "is Chechyna responsible?". How is that meant? How would that country be responsible or that whole people? Too often do I hear people say that THE Muslims, or THE Americans, or THE Politicians, or THE whatever are responsible for anything, or that THE whoever are stupid, evil, nasty etc. Such statements fail to differentiate.
I cling to the idea that in generally evilness is not a foundation of human nature. This believe would be questioned by such general statements.
But I really want to know what it is that makes people commit such inhuman crimes. I hope that I am understood, I do NOT try to seek any justification for something that CANNOT be justified by anything. But why is that, that so many people so willfully give up their lives just to take so many innocent people, they have never met before, with them?
What makes people fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up in busses or restaurants, or take hostages aware of the fact that neither their demands (retreat of Russian troops from Chechyna) are going to be met nor that they are likely to get out alive?
It is that indifference about the own life that makes these terrorists so scary for me. For if someone doesn't care about the own life, why should he or she care about what happens after the own death. What would stop such a person from trying to attack for example a nuclear power plant?
The results if such an attack "succeeded) would be far beyond anything we've seen so far.
Anyway, I'm straying from the topic. Why do people who are physically not different from you and me commit such horrible crimes at the expense of their own lifes? And what do they hope to "gain"? Is the terror and fear itself the aim?
One last thing, the question "is Chechyna responsible?". How is that meant? How would that country be responsible or that whole people? Too often do I hear people say that THE Muslims, or THE Americans, or THE Politicians, or THE whatever are responsible for anything, or that THE whoever are stupid, evil, nasty etc. Such statements fail to differentiate.
I cling to the idea that in generally evilness is not a foundation of human nature. This believe would be questioned by such general statements.